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Jay Besemer

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poet-artist-fool. aging, trans, queer, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they. jet is the cat in this movie. i knew it was a trap as soon as i walked into it.
www.jaybesemer.net


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a mass upswelling of clowns seems like a necessary thing to me!

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sounds a lot like burnout…i recognize my experiences in that description.

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__kssssshhhh__ BEEEDNG, BEEEDNG __vwoooooo__QUTch! 56k dialup modem handshake!

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attn: @reecypontiff.bsky.social

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well, i'm largely but not exclusively a prose poet, but without much capacity for linear narrative, my "characters" tend to be, oh, rocks or smears of peanut butter. or trees.

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i know😆😆 this is one reason i'm a poet, not a fictioneer!

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i was deeply honored to have been able to meet & share a meal with jayne cortez in the early 2000s, with members of the chicago surrealist group. i'm excited to be able to help put out this volume! please join me/spread the word!
nightboat.org/firespitter/...

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wow! 😻 nothing like the right kind of affirmation!!

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whoa i misread this at first as “character” & thought you were making a novelist joke! seriously though, i’m with you there. very challenging. hope it gets sorted easily!

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my first bone graft was from porcine bone tissue, but i’m headed for another one so let’s see! i’m definitely a multispecies event, between all my happy bacteria & my part-pig jaw. there’s metal in there too. well good luck with your implant work no matter who joins you😉

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that’s a beautiful tool array, very satisfying, but i’m awfully fond of your drawings too.

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i never heard of deep cover! i think maybe i ought to look into it.

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no, but it could be one of mine!😉😆

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hooray! congratulations!

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i should think not!

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excellent. there should be more talking barges.💚

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It's Book Quote Wednesday! This week's word is BEST. In this snippet from The Disinformation War, her best online friend sends Kayla a link to a top secret document.

#bookqw
💙📚

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well, don’t worry, i won’t tell you how it ends😉

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it’s a very tense story! i find myself unconsciously holding my breath while watching, which is probably not the greatest thing…

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sort of; i have a list on my phone that’s in need of updating because i’ve stabilized (for now, ha). but i take so many meds there is not usually space to list them all on intake forms, which is the us healthcare system in a nutshell.🙄

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there was a dr. who episode from peter capaldi’s run that hinged on that, only i think the script never named the price—making it seem even more unfathomably exorbitant. it’s called “oxygen.” have you seen it?

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you know, one of the cool things about this big transparent dressing over my healing tattoo is that the no-see-ums can’t bite through it. maybe i should just encase my whole body in it.

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it’s fascinating how things shift—language, i guess, especially—the longer people talk about experiences & selfhoods. but there isn’t enough room in a profile bio or whatnot to contain how i really experience gender & sexuality, & i know it’s not just me. i like that we keep talking, reconceiving!

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“don’t look at that generic cat on the cover. instead, attend to the glory that i embody with my careless ease, my spotless fur…”

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i confess, i feel incredibly old because genderqueer seemed distinct from NB ten years ago (i claim gq) yet now seems to have been sucked up or lumped under NB. this graphic does at least help reduce the tendency against nuance & self-definition i’ve encountered & felt in some uses of “nonbinary.”

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this should not need to be said, but: I DO NOT CONSENT TO BEING ADDED TO A STARTER PACK. if you’ve done so, remove me immediately.

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i have already huzzah'd you elsewhere, but it's definitely worth another. HUZZAH!

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aw no. hope it’s not too awful. full & speedy recovery!

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isn’t it? i can’t believe i get to keep it my whole life!😻

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reposting because i am just SO THRILLED with my beautiful first ink!

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any second now they’ll be turning to diacriticals. you watch—in a year we’ll have to ask after our fêėdüxîgrötz prescriptions & battle the insurance company to approve non-preferred-brand līįchfrymplūdæup.

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yeah that’s what happened to mine—my mustache came in looking like mouse fur & was barely visible for years🐭

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that’s one reason i stopped coloring my hair (though i do miss my own blue💙)! i want my gray visible. i’ve bloody well earned it, & i’m tired of being read as so much younger than i am.

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btw for those of you using substack, you can go into settings to not allow substack to train ai based on your posts - settings, publications details, scroll down and toggle to no.

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it’s so beautiful! i’m definitely working with this tattooist again for my future ones!

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‘Thirty “surplus” mothers from asylums, workhouses, and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts.’

THE MUNE by Sue Dawes

👀 mitpress.mit.edu/978191598324...

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well, i don't know that yet😉. it's my first! i don't fear pain, though. i think i have a different relationship to it / experience of it than most other people.

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bahahahaha! that’ll clear out your sinuses! hey, it sounds delicious though. share recipe?

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what a juicy day! so green & blue—like a miyazaki hillside💚💚

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“person: the vaguely-same-category-of-person-as-this-more-famous-person, of thing.” this must be what happens when you let the robots write your headlines.

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they inhibit nematodes from infesting the soil too

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marigolds have protective benefits for plants they share soil with, but they are also edible. i’m growing a variety that produces small flowers & add them to different things. they taste a bit like dill.🌼

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from one 50something weirdo to another, hope your day’s been amazing. thank you for everything you do in & for the world!

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that wasn’t too long ago, so it scans…

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cats are exponential, so that's quite a handful.

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i am a flagrantly frequent user of ™️ myself, so naturally! just how much kitty do you have over there, besides much kitty™️??

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